[MOD] Homeland, an ahistorical mod for Darkest Hour

[mikey1871]

I'm going to take a break from MDS2 and spend some time now with my own baby, Homeland.
So, I'll first port it to RC3.
I see there are no sprites, and I've since learned how to do sprites, so I'll do some sprites for Homeland. I'll also see what I have knocking around on some old hdd's?
And I'll see where this takes me. I know I need to do the USSR, as I've not done that yet...

So, yeah, come back in a week or so...

YEA !!!!! Nova's back hehehehehehehe

thank you so much, nova

 

[lanodaka]

i'm going to take a break from mds2 and spend some time now with my own baby, homeland.
So, i'll first port it to rc3.
I see there are no sprites, and i've since learned how to do sprites, so i'll do some sprites for homeland. I'll also see what i have knocking around on some old hdd's?
And i'll see where this takes me. I know i need to do the ussr, as i've not done that yet...

So, yeah, come back in a week or so...

sprites!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[novapaddy]

sprites!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hear ye!

 

[novapaddy]

I have ported Homeland to RC3.
This is the 3rd or 4th(?) time I've ported this mod as DH has progressed through 1.02, 1.03 RC1, RC2, RC3.

This time it has not been successful.

The mod has severe problems with save games, where new ERRORS are reported via the AI, where the AI is building units which are "null", or, building brigades which are not allowed with that particular division. This means a player would not be able to reload a saved game and carry on playing.

When I look at the files I cannot find a reason or cause for this to happen.

There are far too many files for me to now update/change/fix or whatever. I just don't see this mod as being so important right now for me to spend the time on it. It was really only a learning and fun experience.

I think doing MDS2 is a much more worthwhile task.

SO guys, this mod is officially dead. :sleep:

 

[lanodaka]

SO guys, this mod is officially dead. :sleep:

dude, are you kidding?

 

[novapaddy]

dude, are you kidding?

Yeah, it is a pity, but I've absolutely no idea what the problem is.

Porting RC2 to RC3 is no big deal, but the save games would be totally xxxx'd up! The AI is building units that do not exist or units that it should not build for that division.

....?

I can upload what I have here if you want to try to fix it? It all works fine, but when you reload a save game... you will get ERROR's and it won't load for you.

EDIT: I'm not being crafty, in trying to get you to do work for me.. I have genuinely no idea what the problem could be. I have tried everything with no success.

 

[novapaddy]

I will try again to see if I can get it to work.

I'm looking at my sheet of files that were Homeland >>> dH 1.03 RC3.. and in the

config folder: only the mods, newtext and world_names are from Homeland.
db folder: the country, revolt files.

So it must be in the units folder...?? But I've looked before... but I will have another look.

 

[novapaddy]

I've tried again to search for the source of the error.

I have used DH INC files, DH AI files, DH misc text... etc etc... and I still get this:

{####### Attachments validation #######
United Kingdom [ENG]...
Checking Units...
ERROR : [59th 'Staffordshire' Division] : Invalid attachment [(null)] for division type [Inf]!
ERROR : [61st Infantry Division] : Invalid attachment [(null)] for division type [Inf]!
ERROR : [34th Infantry Division] : Invalid attachment [(null)] for division type [Inf]!
ERROR : [63rd Infantry Division] : Invalid attachment [(null)] for division type [Inf]!
ERROR : [6th Australian Infantry Div.] : Invalid attachment [(null)] for division type [Inf]!
ERROR : [37th Infantry Division] : Invalid attachment [(null)] for division type [Inf]!
ERROR : [36th Infantry Division] : Invalid attachment [(null)] for division type [Inf]!
ERROR : [77th Infantry Division] : Invalid attachment [(null)] for division type [Inf]!
ERROR : [48th 'South Midlands' Division] : Invalid attachment [(null)] for division type [Inf]!
ERROR : [80th Infantry Division] : Invalid attachment [(null)] for division type [Inf]!
ERROR : [52nd 'Lowland' Division] : Invalid attachment [(null)] for division type [Inf]!
ERROR : [7th Australian Infantry Div.] : Invalid attachment [(null)] for division type [Inf]!
ERROR : [7th Infantry Division] : Invalid attachment [(null)] for division type [Inf]!
ERROR : [62nd Infantry Division] : Invalid attachment [(null)] for division type [Inf]!
ERROR : [1st Infantry Division] : Invalid attachment [(null)] for division type [Inf]!
Checking Redeployment Pool...
Checking Under Development...
France [FRA]...

So unless the clouds part, and a bright ray of sunshine envelopes me, and a voice says "Peter, the error is here... " and I can see the "light" and the cause of the problem.. yes, this mod is dead...

 

[lanodaka]

well, they give a clue as which units it are.

can't you find those units and delete them? I bet they are only UK, AUS and perhaps USA units.

 

[novapaddy]

well, they give a clue as which units it are.

can't you find those units and delete them? I bet they are only UK, AUS and perhaps USA units.

You certainly are persistent lanodaka, I give you that!
I think "in my bones" that my db unit files are corrupted, especially the division_types file, and possibly some others? Why? Well the MDS2 mod has the same setup as this mod and it doesn't give any similar problems.

............

UPDATE:

Let's just let this mod sit for a while. It is not dead, it is just sleeping.

I think it is probably best for me to start again, with a clean version of DH1.03 RC3, and take it forward again from there. My modding skills are greatly improved from the time I started this mod, so hopefully I can get over the recent problems and prepare a homeland mod for us all to enjoy again.

Cheers

 

[lanodaka]

weeee

 

[mikey1871]

You certainly are persistent lanodaka, I give you that!
I think "in my bones" that my db unit files are corrupted, especially the division_types file, and possibly some others? Why? Well the MDS2 mod has the same setup as this mod and it doesn't give any similar problems.

............

UPDATE:

Let's just let this mod sit for a while. It is not dead, it is just sleeping.

I think it is probably best for me to start again, with a clean version of DH1.03 RC3, and take it forward again from there. My modding skills are greatly improved from the time I started this mod, so hopefully I can get over the recent problems and prepare a homeland mod for us all to enjoy again.

Cheers

that's prolly a great idea. it might be jealous that you left it and spent all the time you did making MDS2.

You know how weird those "Ghosts in the machines" can be LOL

 

[novapaddy]

I'll be starting with a clean copy of DH1.03 RC3.
Thinking of getting rid of the CSA events... what do you think?

Concentrating on getting it working as it was before before the new dh version.
Intending to do a dedicated SOV set of events to match the others.

Anything else?
and add some new sprites.. have loads of these for RDD, so may borrow some

 

[novapaddy]

STRANGE
The last time I tried to get this mod to work, all I had were ERRORS and some very strange goings on altogether! Like null units!

Today, I loaded it up with NO PROBLEMS and it played as expected...

How do you explain that?

 

[ModDayScenario2]

I will test the mod again and hopefully upload it later. Cheers

 

[novapaddy]

No this mod is not ready to upload yet as I have noticed that I need to do some work on it yet.

 

[Gukpa]

Will have an USA victory event in the new patch?

 

[novapaddy]

Will have an USA victory event in the new patch?

Victory?

But the USA usually lose the war?

 

[mikey1871]

Homeland 2 for DH1.03 RC3

This is the latest version of Homeland2. It is only for DH1.03 RC3.

REMEMBER: Rhineland and Prussia are German demilitarised zones.

DIRECTIONS:
Extract PatriaRC3ver2.3.7z into your Darkest Hour/Mods folder.
Select HomelandRC3 from the list in the Launcher. Play.
This is a single file of approx 280MBs.


LINK to follow.

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62 new units included:

so, where is the "link"? that's not a nice joke Paddy ((

i guess the mod stopped working once again, huh? darn it !

 

[Gukpa]

Victory?

But the USA usually lose the war?

Yes,but USA must have victory events,without them WHY a player will play your mod with America?To stay in a eternal war agains UK even if they Kick UK out of Canada and Caribbean!